Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11

much interest In the latefs'| 1ts il
owing to feeling of anxiety gre gre
sale of the B. & o. might atfecSSSS H H;tf
ing and shipping interests, but alf% seve
the matter has ceased, and We are wahere
to see what's what and what isn't. w
were of the unanimous opinion that the B.
& o. neeedd little spanking" butias II
was a sort OF 8 member Of our own family
we preferred to do the spanking ourselves.
We hope freight rates may be better and
they must be in order to give us an even
chance in the markets.
The County Court this week offered a
reward Of five hundred dollars for the ar
rest and conviction Of the person who shot
and killed John j. Cartwright on the
morning Of the oath ultimo, in Manning
ton, in this county. 1t was little slow
in coming, but it Is TO be hoped some
thing will bring the murderer TO justice.
There seems to be some inclination among
professed good citizens to shield the muir
derer and justify his infamous crime, but
public sentiment demands that no such
wrong shall go unaveDged.
The Normal School opened on Tuesday
morning last with upwards Of eighty pu-
pills in attendance and a good prospect for
an increased attendance during the coming
week. This is a much larger number than
usual and augurs we'll for another success
full school year.
Quite a delegation of citizens from Fair
mont attended the big Fair in Wheeling
th;a xyaaly an1 xpara Jal;chEa1 ,-;th 1ba Az
hibits made. They say it was the best and
biggest one yet.
1t is stated, with what truth we know
not, that some Of those patriots (?) who re-
fused to march under the REGISTER, S ban
ner contemplate refusing to accept their
next regular quarterly allowance of pen
sions. We hope they will not do this as
lots Of these little ''swags" come this way
and our share of the Government surplus
is too large already.
Secretary Staggers, of the Stock Breed
ers' Association, announces that he Is ar
ranging for some fast races here next
month. We always get the horses and the
crowd and have good time.
The passenger engineers on this division
Of the B. & o. are fighting for the priyi-
lege of running the FairmOnt accom- moda-
ton.
They say that Jack Murphy is keeping
the engines so very bright and clean
now that they hardly know themselves.
Jack wants the iron horses to look nice
because he feels nice over bran new
twelve-pound boy that made its appear
ance at his house one day last week.
George w. Price, the genial and &C.
modating clerk at Swisher & Carpenter g
store, visited his uncle in Greenyille, Pa,
this week.
The bricklayers are engaged in build
ing the walls OF the new wooden mill at
GAINESVILLE. ThomasF. Conoway, Jr, has
the contract for doing all the brick work.
Messrs. A. W. Tenant and Will Digs,
two popular Baltimore travelling men,
were here this week circulating among our
merchants.
John n Arnold, citizen of this place,
but who has heen travelling for some time
with Forman's photograph car, suffered
some very severe burns recently at Evans
vile, Preston county, by the explosion OF
kerosene lamp He is now at home
here, and is slightly improved.
Miss Sallie Mccoy and brother Paul are
visiting friends in Tyler county.
Miss Jennie Warder, Of Grafton, was
visiting friends here this week. She re-
turned to her home on Friday last.
Capt. T. A. Maulsby, q gallant old SOL
der and a good citizen, late Of Trenton,
New Jersey, but formerly of this place,
has returned here with his family, after
eight years absence, and will make this
his home in future.
Typhoid fever is again prevailing to an
alarming extent in the town and neighbor-
hood of Fairview, in this county.
H. Leigh LAyman and Glenn Fleming,
two of our intellectual and popular young
men left last Wednesday for college, al
Adrian, Michigan.
Raphael Hayden, of Baltimore, is at his
fathers home here, recovering from the
effect of very severe cold which had set
tied on his lungs and had given him con-
siderable trouble.
County Commissioner Burchinal has dis
posed Of his farm and all his household
effects and will no longer be tiller OF
Our excellent fellow-citizen, James K.
Snider, will shortly become again citizen
of our town, it being his intention to move
his family in that they may have the adj
vantages offered by our public schools.
Miss Eudo Stone entertained a pleas
ant little company at her home one even
ing this week, in honor of her visitor,
Miss Miller, Of Grafton.
Sam r. Nuzum, the furniture man, has
one of the most attractive signs in town,
and he keeps the nobbiest stock in the
county.
Among our citizens who took in the
State Fair were DR.. A. G. Roger, Deputy
Sheriff Manley, Alex. Bebout, C. L. Ha-
gan and G. W. Price.
Owen S. Mckinney, Esq, will leave on
Tuesday next for Denver, Col, whittier
he goes as one of the representatives from
the grand lodge of West Virginia of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge of the United
States, l. o. o. F. The other representa-
tives from this State are DR.. Shriver, Of
Brooke county, and William Ellingham,
of Wheeling
Contractor r. l.. Cunningham expects
to be able to proceed with the erection of
the bridge over Pawpaw creek next week.
A party from this place spent the day
pleasantly at Valley Falls yesterday.
Prosecuting Attorney Meredith was in
Wheeling this week.
The curbing around the Mountain City
House is undergoing repairs and the town
,is putting in a new stone gutter at the
same place.
,Fairmont's much talked of electric light
that we have been getting so long and have
not got yet, seems to have died natural
death from old age. We need more light
here and ought to have it and hope some
body will resurrect,the electric. light cheme
and plt it in instant operation.
Sheriff Martin, L. P. Carr and J. W.
Irwin were pleased visitors at the Fair.
FIRE CLAY FOUND
In the Kanawha Yalley-A Vein of Seven
teen Feet In Thickness.
Special Correspondence of the SUNDAY ReCider